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Area of Science:

  • Conservation Science
  • Environmental Planning
  • Transdisciplinary Studies

Background:

  • The translation of conservation plans into effective action is often slow and limited.
  • This science-action gap is exacerbated by complex societal issues, knowledge silos, and poor scientist-decision-maker collaboration.
  • Transdisciplinary approaches, integrating stakeholders in a social learning process, offer a potential solution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the principles of transdisciplinarity in conservation planning.
  • To identify requirements for making conservation planning more transdisciplinary and effective.
  • To analyze challenges in bridging the science-action gap using the transdisciplinary hierarchy of knowledge.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of conservation planning practices in South Africa.
  • Application of the transdisciplinary hierarchy of knowledge (empirical, pragmatic, normative, purposive).
  • Evaluation of integration across different knowledge levels in conservation planning.

Main Results:

  • Conservation planning effectively integrates empirical disciplines into pragmatic, stakeholder-involved strategy development and implementation.
  • Challenges persist in engaging social sciences and understanding implementation contexts.
  • Effectiveness is limited by fragmented land-use planning (normative) and national development priorities (purposive).

Conclusions:

  • Conservation planning must advance beyond empirical and pragmatic integration to engage with normative (policy, law) and purposive (values, decision-making) levels.
  • Successful transdisciplinary conservation planning requires dedicated time, leadership, resources, and specific skills.
  • Current conservation training, practice, and reward systems need adaptation to support normative and purposive engagement.